2. WHY USE A RAPID PROTOTYPING EXPERT?
EXPERTS IN END-TO-END PROTOTYPING SOLUTIONS
PROTOTYPE SHORT RUN
TOOLING
TEST
DESIGN
(STL, IGES)
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IDEA
3. 3DPRINTING.COM.AU
WHY USE A RAPID PROTOTYPING EXPERT?
• Market Leading Experience
– Printable 3D CAD Files
– Machine Set-Up (Strength, Durability, Print time).
• Confidentiality
• No need to purchase an expensive machine
• Finishing
• The correct machine for the right application
• Speedy
• Saves you $DOLLARS
5. CASE STUDIES
4 INDUSTRY EXAMPLES
• Motor Vehicle Industry
• Bull Bar
• Reverse Engineering of a Truck Dashboard
• Mining
• Topography of Mining Site
• Machinery Model
• Newcrest Mining Cadia Valley
• Medical
• Hip Replacement
• Packaging & Point-of-Sale Material
6. CASE STUDIES
SMART BAR - SITUATION
“Smart Bar wanted to explore alternative ways
to manufacture patterns for their rotational
moulded bullbars”
7. CASE STUDIES
SMART BAR - REQUIREMENTS
• A rigid patterns for sand Casting
• Reduce pattern inventory
• Lighter weight for OH&S
• Decrease production costs of tooling
• 3DPrint patterns not machine from solid material
13. CASE STUDIES
SMART BAR - RESULTS
• Decrease tooling costs from $40 to 30K.
• Lighter for OH&S
• Reduced pattern inventory by 50%
14. CASE STUDIES
TRUCK DASH - SITUATION
“Customer wanted a dash conversion from left
to right hand drive and wanted the end result to
look exactly the same?
15. CASE STUDIES
TRUCK DASH - ACTIONS
• Scanning
• 3D CAD
• SLA master parts
• Rigid tooling
19. CASE STUDIES
MINING- TASK
“Create a 3D Model for the Cadia
Newcrest Mining stie for their social
license to operate”
20. CASE STUDIES
MINING- TASK
• Scale topography 1 – 10,000
• 1st topography that included the top and
underground mining operations.
• Include
• Before
• During
• After
28. CASE STUDIES
MEDICAL
Background
– 83 year old male had a hip replacement previously
and the socket joint had slipped and deteriorated
– Surgeon needed to know how much bone
– MRI Scan
Actions
– Transferred the MRI file into a CAD program
– Clean file so only bone would be printed
– Used a 3D Printing Binder Jetting
29. CASE STUDIES
MEDICAL - ACTION
• Transferred the MRI file into a CAD program
• Clean file so only bone would be printed
• Used a 3D Printing Binder Jetting
30. CASE STUDIES
MEDICAL - RESULTS
•Doctor could preoperative planning
•Shorter operating time
31. CASE STUDIES
PACKAGING & POS - BACKGROUND
• 2 companies supplying to FMC market
– POS
– Packaging
• Supplying to the FMC market to
customers like
• Coca Cola
• Nature's Own
• Kraft
• Customer gives a brief of a design
• Companies makes prototype of
products for sign off before tooling is
made.
